The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1887-04-23

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protested the innocence of Lovett
and Young. Young underwent
sentence with seemingly little con-
cern, while Lovett displayed a
manly breast and stoutly proclaim
ed innocence. He dropped his
head and submitted meekly to the
inevitable process of law. He
showed a tender sympathy for his
beloved twin sister when the court
referred TO the sorrow it would bring
upon her already bleeding heart on
receipt of the sad intelligence of her
beloved brothers conviction of
felony. When he replied to the
courts solemn question:
"What would you give rather
than have that kind sister learn of
your fate?"
He answered in firm tone and
particularly emphasized the word
life: 81 would freely give my life
For moment there was death
like stiffness in the crowded room,
then simultaneous choking
throughout the audience followed,
in which the stern court seemed to
Join, and it was some time before
Judge Hays resumed his solemn
duty.
There are many who firmly be-
lieve that Thomas Lovett is inno-
cent. His actions while he has
lived in this country certainly do
not indicate that he could be guilty
of such charge. There has been
great mystery surrounding the
case, and that mystery 3 solved
by Johnson's confession after sem
tence had been pronunced. He
claims that he put up the job and
arranged it with two other parties
to do the holding up" who have
since skipped the country, and that
neither Young nor Lovett had any
thing to do with the robbery. This
may be true and it may not, but at
any rate there is sort of doubt
lowering in the minds of many peo-
pie who know Lovett, that he is in
nocent johnson further stated
that he placed in the express pack
age about $2,200, which the men
who robbed the express were to di-
vide with him, and they were also
to stand in to certain extent with
the $4,000 which he expected to
get out of the express company,
but instead of dividing they skip
ped the country with the $4,000,
leaving him with merely the receipt
of the Pacific Express agent for the
$4,000 supposed to have been
shipped. He also gave the names
of the parties who did the robbing,
which for reasons we withhold from
publication. We are informed that
since this startling confession has
been made that the express COM
pany will sift the matter to the
bottom, and if it is a fact innocent
men have been convicted it will do
all in its power to have them liber-
ated, by ferreting out and captur-
ing the guilty parties.
Before adjourning, the court is
sued an order to the effect that the
sheriff use due diligence in the safe
keeping of the prisoners and to
turn them over to the warden of
penitentiary inside of thirty days.
Court had no sooner adjourned for
the term until the prisoners were
husteled off to Minidoka where
they took the train for Boise, and
were soon lodged safely in the pen
itentiary. They were found guilty,
sentenced and on the road to the
"pen" inside of eight hours time.
Johnson weakened as he entered
the prison and exclaimed:
Buried, buried, by C. for twenty
years" The other two kept up
their spirits to the last, and it is
said that Lovett smiled when he
gazed upon the stripped apparel of
the inmates of his new home.
Thus ends the last chapter of at
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